Tsarnaev Sentencing Date Set

In a post on Twitter, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the convicted Boston Marathon Bomber will be sentenced at 9:30 a.m. on June 24, 2015.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death on May 15, 2015, for his role in killing four people and injuring hundreds in the 2013 bombings and police action that followed the bombings that kept the metropolitan area of Boston under siege.

Tsarnaev, 21, and his brother, Tamerlan, planted homemade explosives at the finish line of the marathon on April 15, 2013. The blasts killed Martin Richard, 8, of Dorchester; Lingzi Lu, 23, of Boston; and Krystle Campbell, 29, of Medford. The Tsarnaev brothers also killed MIT police officer Sean Collier, 27, in the ensuing manhunt.

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